Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-30
EuE PRIME MINISTER.
nr. Talmage's Sermon at the Brook
Ign Tabernacle.

b,onkLYN. September 1o.-A1ter DelnS
'N '1 for some weeks for improvements
s." ",,Ioreements, the Brooklyn Taber-
was opened to-day. The same over
sImine throngs were in attendance as
ara The congregation sang with great
Ct the hymn:
before jehovah awful throne
We nations bow with sacred joy,
tnow that the Lcrd ia God alone
He can create and He can destroy.
fer explaining appropriate passages of
;nture DIR. Talmage took his text from
,ssis Xii. Al: "And Pharaoh said unto
snh: See, have set thee over all the
of Egypt" The subject of the SER
yos aThe Prime Minister" DIR. Tai
pc said:
on cannot keep good man down. God
decreed for him q certain elevation to
oh he must attain. He will bring him
pugh, though it cost him 1000 worlds.
re are men constantly in trouble lest
shall not be appreciated. Every man
,es in the end to be valued at just what
5 worth. How often you see men turn
all their forces to crush one man or set
aen. How do they succeed No better
did the government that tried to crush
hnh. O Scripture character upon which
speak to-day. 1t would be IN
lit to suppose that you were
all familiar with the life
oseph: how his jealous brothers threw
into the pit, but, seeing a caravan of
ban merchants moving along on their
bels with spices and gums that loaded
air with aroma, sold their brother to
Sc merchants. who carried him down
Egypt; how Joseph was sold to Poti-
r, a man of influence and office; how by
ksrity he raised himself to high position
lie realm, until under the false charge
vile wretch he was hurled into the peni-
tiary; how by the Interpretation of
oraoh's dream he was freed and became
chief man in the goyernment-the Bis
rex Of the nation; how in time of famine
pph had control of storeheuse which
had filled during the seven years of
pty; how when his brothers, who had
own him into the pit and sold him into
btjyity, applied for corn, he sent them
NE with their beasts borne down under
heft of the corn sacks; how the sin
inst their brother, which had so long
IN hidden, came out at last, and was re-
ned by that brothers forgiveness and
dness, an illustrious triumph of
ristian principle.
earn from this story in the first place
the world is compelled to honor
.i:tian character. Potiphar was only a
aof the world, yet Joseph rose in his
inaton until all the affairs of that great
ue we're committed to his charge. From
sse.yant no honors or condolences were
khAell. When Joseph was in prison he
tl won the heart Of the keeper, and,
bugh placed there for being a scoundrel,
soon convinced the jailer that he was
innocent and trustworthy man, and,
easel from close confinement, he be-
nea general superintendent of prison
rs. Wherever Joseph was placed,
ether servant in the house of Potiphar
prisoner in the penitentiary, he be-
be the first man everywhere, and is an
STATION of the truth lay down that the
Id is compelled to honor Christian
racter.
here are those who affect to despise a
gious life. They speak of it as sys-
of phlehotomy, by which man is
Of all his courage and nobility. They
be has bemeaned himself. They pre-
to have no more confidence in him
his conversion than before his con-
hon. But all that is hypocrisy. 1t is
osslble for any man not to admire and
hde IN Christian who shows that he
really become child of God and is
he processes to be. You cannot de-
son Or q daughter of the Lord God
lightly. OF course half and half reli-
IS character wins no appreciation. Red
j, the King of the Saxons, after Chris
baptism had two altals. one for the
Ship Of God and the other for the sac
Of devils. You may have a contempt
Such men for mere pretension reli-
but when you behold the excellency
esus Christ come out in the life of
OF his disciples, all that there is good
noble in your soul rises up into adj
Atlon. Though that Christian be as far
ea'h YOU in estate as the Egyptian
OF Whom we are discussing, by an
'ocable law of our nature Potiphar
Pharaoh will always esteem Joseph.
Esoston. when threatened with death
LudoXia. the Empress, sent word to
saving: go tell her that fear moth
On sln.'' Such nobility of character
always be applauded. There was
ching in Agrippa and Felix which de-
led their respect for Paul, the rebel
lst government. l doubt not they
~ willingly have yielded their Office
0i9hlty for the thousandth part of that
lefoislD which beamed i'll the eye and
II The heart of the unconquerable
Sue The intidel and wording are
Ne!led to honor in their hearts, though
may not eulogize with their lips,
stlah flrm IN persecution, cheerful in
ls'S' trustful in losses, triumphant in
L. Ind Christian men in all pro-
IONS and occupations, and l find them
ec'ed, and honored, and successful.
federick Oberlin alternating igno-
and distress. John Howard passing
dungeon to lazaretto with healing for
pody and the soul, Elizabeth Frye
ing to the profigate of Newgate |
W 10 shake down their obduracy as the |
came to their prison at Philippi,
lIs open the doors and swapping locks
MAINS, as we'll rs the lives of thou
Of the followers of Jesus who have
lea, themselves to the temporal and
..4al welfare of the race, are monu-
OF the Christian religion that shall
rumble while the world lasts. A man
ss cars said: III would like to become
= u, If l only knew what religion is.
ehis lying and cheating and bad be-
ala " among men who profess to be good
saasion, want none of it," But, my
Vs. am an artist in Rome and a
to4les to me and asks me what the |
taih,lns is must not show him the
" some mere pretender. l will take
ev me Raphaels and the Michael
l ls. 1t Is most unfair and dishonest
NJ n me lgnominious failures in Chris
A moiesslon instead of the glorious
's s: The Bible and the church are
picture galleries filled with master
(nh e.s;lnore, We learn from this story Of |
u. luQt tho ror.alk coa.,kio1a i, |